Tuesday, August 30, 2016

The racist trying to make money off the Obamas

The Magic Johnson theater in New York's Harlem neighborhood grossed more than any other site over the weekend.

'We’re very happy with the opening,' said Roadside co-president Howard Cohen.

'We had sell-outs in many markets and the movie is playing to both an African-American audience and to arthouse audiences. The reviews have been better than anything we saw at Sundance and it will continue to play throughout the fall.'

As an African-American, I find that comment racist.

I am more likely to go to the independent film theater than to a multi-plex.

I'm really not interested in most 'big' films. If it's science fiction, I am.

Otherwise, I want to see a small picture that might be about real life.

Regardless of that, I find it very racist the way Howard Cohen looks at "an African-American audience" while he's trying to sell tickets to the story of Barack and Michelle.

Coward Luay-Luay waits for others to make Iraq safe so that then he can
rush in with his Iraq Energy Institute which he founded -- or Luay Jawad
did or which ever name he's going by at whichever moment.

Let's again note the second most popular episode of CHARLIE'S ANGELS, season one's "Consenting Adults" (written by Les Carter), Farrah Fawcett's Jill lays down some basic truth with Laurette Spang's Tracy.Jill: Okay, let's both stop playing games. For starters, you can
drop the "Tracy." It rhymes with Stacy and Macy all those other jive
names hookers like to latch onto.

So Luay-Luay al-Khatteeb or Luay-Luay Jawad shows up at HUFFINGTON POST to yet again attack REUTERS:Be that as it may, you would never know this from the Special Reports
peddled by Reuter’s Ned Parker, which are often one sided, confused,
and guilty of engaging in partial journalism based on a modus operandi
defined by cherry picking of facts.

Luay-Luay doesn't cherry pick . . . he crack picks.

Digs in his own ass with his fingers and then waves them in the air to show the world what he 'found.'

Ned Parker's got a legacy of reporting on Iraq that stands.

It's goes back to the days of the Bully Boy Bush administration.

Luay-Luay?

He's got the kind of history public health guidelines require you share with all sex partners.

Shi’ite militias
in Iraq detained, tortured and abused far more Sunni civilians during
the American-backed capture of the town of Falluja in June than U.S.
officials have publicly acknowledged, Reuters has found.More
than 700 Sunni men and boys are still missing more than two months
after the Islamic State stronghold fell. The abuses occurred despite
U.S. efforts to restrict the militias' role in the operation, including
threatening to withdraw American air support, according to U.S. and
Iraqi officials.The U.S. efforts
had little effect. Shi’ite militias did not pull back from Falluja,
participated in looting there and now vow to defy any American effort to
limit their role in coming operations against Islamic State.All
told, militia fighters killed at least 66 Sunni males and abused at
least 1,500 others fleeing the Falluja area, according to interviews
with more than 20 survivors, tribal leaders, Iraqi politicians and
Western diplomats. They said men
were shot, beaten with rubber hoses and in several cases beheaded. Their
accounts were supported by a Reuters review of an investigation by
local Iraqi authorities and video testimony and photographs of survivors
taken immediately after their release.

If you've forgotten, Luay-Luay is a professional apologist for the
Shi'ite militias. When they began threatening Ned Parker on Iraqi state
television, Luay-Luay found that hilarious.

Sort of like the way I find it hilarious that a coward like Luay-Luay thinks anyone should listen to him.

We've been calling out Luay-Luay here for years and we've never been wrong.

Sadly, wrong is all Luay-Luay's ever been.

And the only myth is his own that Iraq's on the road to healing.

How bad are the militias?

So bad that Jar Jar Blinks is back to talking Iraq.

That's right Raed Jarrar who told the world Barack Obama would end the
Iraq War and then congratulated Barack on ending the Iraq War has had to
put aside his erotic fan fiction (DOWN LOW AND DIRTY WITH BARRY -- soon
to be rewritten into 50 SHADES OF OIL) and speak with Brian Becker about just how bad things are.

When was the last time we noted Jar Jar?

I think it was when Ava and I rightly slammed him in "Media: The Collapse of Indymedia and its Queen"
which went up the last Sunday of 2013 and noted how useless he was as
an expert or 'expert' on Iraq for Amy Goodman's increasingly bad talk
show:

Jarrar left Iraq long ago physically and apparently mentally and emotionally.

For example, in December, Raed offered 22 Tweets and re-Tweets.
Exempting the ones promoting his appearance on Friday's Democracy Now!,
how many Tweets or re-Tweets were about Iraq?

Only one. And it was a re-Tweet. Iraq's had a huge resurgence in
violence in the last two years. December's already at least the second
most violent month (based on deaths) of the year. But Raed never took
the time to write a 160 characters or less Tweet on that.

If you go through his Tweets from September through November, you'll find no Tweet or re-Tweet on Iraq.

In fact, you have to drop back to May 1st to find the term "Iraq" on
Raed's Twitter feed. That's when he retreats about an attack on a US
Iraq War veteran.

1145 people died from violence in Iraq in the month of July. That is
currently monthly total record (though December is not over yet). Raed
didn't Tweet about it.

In fact, you have to go back to March -- the 10th anniversary of the
start of the illegal war -- to find Raed Tweeting about Iraq and then
it's more about "pre-2003" than anything else.

Raed's nothing but a useless little bitch and he proves it all the time.

Only Goody Whore would bring on the man who fled Iraq physically, emotionally and mentally as an expert.

It was so bad, it was embarrassing.

It was like sitting in an English Lit grad course where the topic was
Edith Wharton and Raed's entire contribution was what he had gleaned
from watching Martin Scorsese's film of The Age of Innocence.

It was Friday. Protests in Iraq.

Never mentioned.

Even though the previous Sunday Nouri had threatened the protesters.

Even though he had attempted to attack them on Tuesday but a flurry of
political meetings forced him to pull his forces out of Ramadi's sit-in
sqaure.

Even though on the Friday Raed 'shared,' Nouri had already gone on Iraqi
TV and announced that this had been the last Friday protest and that he
would burn down the protest tents in Anbar.

'C.I., you and Ava thought the protests mattered. There's no reason Raed Jarrar has to share your opinion.'

It was our opinion and, thing is, it was the correct critique. As we would note in "TV: A week of putrid and puerile," the day after we wrote that piece, Nouri sent his forces into a protest camp resulting in the deaths of 17 civilians:That was December 29th when we wrote that.

If you don't get how right we were to call them out for ignoring the
protesters -- them being Amy Goodman, Raed Jarrar and WG Dunlop. On
December 27th, three laughable 'journalists' pretended they knew enough
to discuss Iraq.

They didn't know one damn thing except how to whore.

The protests mattered and if you doubt that, let's go to Human Rights
Watch, "Government security forces had withdrawn from Anbar province
after provoking a tribal uprising when they raided a Sunni protest camp in Ramadi on December 30, killing 17 people." This is the assault on Anbar.

Having screwed that up, Amy Goodman ignored Iraq for two months until
last week when she did a really bad segment with Dahr Jamail.

And Goody Whore ignored the topic. When she finally found 'time' for
it, it first had to wait for I-Need-Attention-Benjamin. CodeStink's
Medea got into an altercation in Egypt. This was news to Democracy Now?

We ask that because Goody Whore never noted Lara Logan's rape in Egypt
but did bring on a whore -- we use the term intentionally -- who
explained she herself was sexually assaulted but it was no big thing. (Rebecca called the b.s. out in real time.)
Rape is "miniscule," that's a message the Goody Whore broadcasts and
promotes but let con artist Medea claim she was roughed up in Egypt and
it's time to spend over six minutes with Medea.

Iraq?

It got seven minutes.

Deaths, refugees, hospitals attacked and so much more is only worth one minute more than Medea's latest drama.

When the White House didn't want to face the truth about Nouri al-Maliki
-- and even after it had but didn't want the American people to know --
we have told the truth on Nouri.

Before WikiLeaks revealed cables discussing the US government's view
that Nouri was paranoid, we were already telling you -- years before --
about the CIA analysis that felt Nouri was the best candidate for prime
minister of Iraq because his paranoia would make him easy to manipulate.

Luay Luay lies but if you want to give him the benefit of the doubt --
his 'truth' is skewed by his desire to make money off of Iraq.

Greed blinds him to realities like the fact that the militias are said to be recruiting child soldiers. Human Rights Watch issues an alert which opens:Iraqi
government-backed militias have recruited children from at least one
displaced persons camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to fight against
Islamic State forces. All security forces and armed groups should abide
by international law and demobilize any fighters under age 18. Witnesses and relatives told Human Rights Watch that two tribal
militias (Hashad al-Asha`ri) recruited as fighters at least seven
children from the Debaga camp on August 14, 2016, and drove them to a
town closer to Mosul, where Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) are preparing
for an offensive to drive the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, from
the city. The Hashad al-Asha`ri, made up of local Sunni fighters, are
expected to play a key role
in Mosul military operations, while the government may order the mainly
Shia militias of the Popular Mobilization Forces to stay out of the
Mosul fighting. “The recruitment of children as fighters for the Mosul operation should be a warning sign for the Iraqi government,” said Bill Van Esveld,
senior children’s rights researcher. “The government and its foreign
allies need to take action now, or children are going to be fighting on
both sides in Mosul.” Human Rights Watch has documented that ISIS has extensivelyrecruited and deployed children in its forces. Debaga camp, 40 kilometers south of Erbil, currently houses
over 35,000 people displaced in the fighting between government forces
and ISIS. Two people living in the camp since March told Human Rights
Watch that at least two militia groups engaged in the fighting against
ISIS are entirely made up of camp residents. They said that these two
militias, commanded by Sheikh Nishwan al-Jabouri and by Maghdad
al-Sabawy, the son of the recently deceased commander Fares al-Sabawy,
have been recruiting from the camp for months. Their trucks have been
arriving empty, and driving away filled with men, and in some cases,
boys.

The two camp residents said that two very large trucks arrived in
the evening of August 14 and took away about 250 new recruits, at least 7
of them under age 18, to join Sheikh al-Jabouri’s forces. Witnesses and
other camp residents said that all the men and boys volunteered to join
the militias. An aid worker who was on the road saw the two trucks
heading to Hajj Ali, a town about 46 kilometers from Debaga and 7
kilometers from the front lines with ISIS. They contacted local aid
workers in Hajj Ali, who confirmed that the group had arrived there,
stayed for one night, and then went on to join a militia nearby.

And all of these people in need struggle in a country that the US
government drops bombs on daily -- every day since August of 2014.
Yesterday, the US Defense Dept announced:

Strikes in IraqAttack, bomber, fighter and ground attack aircraft conducted 13
strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:-- Near Bashir, a strike destroyed an ISIL checkpoint.-- Near Haditha, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed a fighting position.-- Near Mosul, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit, destroyed three vehicles and a mortar position.-- Near Qayyarah, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit,
destroyed a mortar system, a vehicle, five assembly areas, a supply
cache, a front-end loader and denied access to terrain.-- Near Ramadi, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit, a vehicle and a boat and damaged a fighting position.-- Near Sultan Abdallah, a strike struck an ISIL security headquarters.

Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic
events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a
single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a
single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle
is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons
against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for
example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or
impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not
report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number
of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual
munition impact points against a target. Ground-based artillery fired in
counterfire or in fire support to maneuver roles is not classified as a
strike.

Of those objecting, the objection is that they themselves are in any way
responsible for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump ending up the
nominees.

Jim writes the headlines. That said, it does represent our piece. Ava
and I were including ourselves in the "we" and that's why we use that.

We indict the lazy media ('news'), we indict the entertainment industry
(Emmys for reality TV -- get serious, it's trash), we indict a wide
range of groups (including the smut merchants like Gale Anne Hurd who've
made fortunes in recent years promoting garbage of a world with no
hope).

But, yes, We The People is in there as well.

If it doesn't apply to you, let it roll off.

In terms of the other e-mails on the article, a lot of you wish it was longer.

Seriously?

Have you read it?

It's way too long as it is.

But, yes, we can take some questions on it for next week and develop
whatever you feel needs further discussion or an aspect you wants us to
go into more. (Please put "Question" in your e-mail subject heading and
Martha and Shirley will route it to Ty who will probably moderate some
sort of discussion piece for THIRD.)

I will deal right here with an issue Yazz raised that Martha passed on: There's no attempt at humor.

No.

There's not.

A) Jess is no longer with THIRD. If he was, he would have stopped Jim.
We had no idea where Jim was headed when we all got together to write.
He was making statements about Ava and my "TV: Poor sports and strip teases"
from the week before. And then he told us the views. We never, ever
want to know that. We don't want to repeat ourselves, we don't want to
play the 'hits.'

But that number was so high that we really felt paralyzed. I'm not joking.

So we wouldn't have been very funny to begin with.

B) But at one point we had a Caitlin Jenner joke and we toyed with
putting it in. But then we decided that joking would give a release and
we didn't want it. We wanted the piece to make you uncomfortable and
we didn't want to kid.